Hi - belatedly commenting because belated to the comm; all the introductions were a lot of fun to read, and I'm glad there's a noticeboard like this on Dreamwidth! I'm one of the people solo got into the show, and she pointed me here too.
solo showed me the first three episodes in August, and I was intrigued, but then we moved house and went on a long vacation and it took me a little while to pick the show back up. Then episode 6 happened, specifically the mugging scene at the end and its continuation in episode 7, and... doom. :-) (So many layers in that scene! So much happening in the silences! Sudden intimacy over ongoing prickliness!)
I remember very little about October/November except "I went to work and then I went home and watched Guardian". That last weekend when we mainlined first Chu's dream arc and then the final arc was... a trip. Guardian was the first cdrama I ever watched (though then it didn't stay the only one) and I don't speak any Chinese, so that added to the whole "going down the rabbit hole in a rollercoaster" sensation.
I've read parts of the novel translation and I'm intrigued by the second strand of canon, but it also feels a little strange to see the differences and contrasts to the show. I'm only just starting to discover the fic that exists for the show.
I've been in fandom since the mid-1990s but I spent about the last 10 years basically mono-fannish (in Jpop/KAT-TUN/Akame fandom), so now I feel quite wobbly venturing into a new and active fandom and doing such things as... joining comms and introducing myself and trying to find out where the coffee machine is. *g* But it's also very exciting!
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I remember very little about October/November except "I went to work and then I went home and watched Guardian". That last weekend when we mainlined first Chu's dream arc and then the final arc was... a trip. Guardian was the first cdrama I ever watched (though then it didn't stay the only one) and I don't speak any Chinese, so that added to the whole "going down the rabbit hole in a rollercoaster" sensation.
I've read parts of the novel translation and I'm intrigued by the second strand of canon, but it also feels a little strange to see the differences and contrasts to the show. I'm only just starting to discover the fic that exists for the show.
I've been in fandom since the mid-1990s but I spent about the last 10 years basically mono-fannish (in Jpop/KAT-TUN/Akame fandom), so now I feel quite wobbly venturing into a new and active fandom and doing such things as... joining comms and introducing myself and trying to find out where the coffee machine is. *g* But it's also very exciting!